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Poverty Incidence in Ilocos Region Drops to 4% in 2025
Poverty incidence in the Ilocos Region significantly decreased to 4 percent in 2025 from 8.4 percent in 2023, according to the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA). The number of poor families also fell from over 320,000 to approximately 57,000.
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